trump lashes out at the justice department as the investigation expands. plus, his attorney general, in the hot seat. >> and to suggest that i participated in any collusion is an appalling and detestable lie. a moment of unity after tragedy. >> at the end of the day we're all americans. >> we can root for the republicans, i could root for the democrats, but we could still be friends.

>> will it last? plus trying to keep his campaign promises on health care and foreign policy. >> i am canceling the last administration's completely one-sided deal with cuba. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm nia-malika henderson filling in for john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thanks for sharing your sunday. the russia investigation is causing a rift inside the justice department, with tensions surrounding deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. justice officials tell cnn that rosenstein could have to recuse himself from the investigation partly because of his role in the firing of fbi director james comey. president trump didn't hold back his feelings on the russia

investigation or on rosenstein. at 7:53 on friday, this tweet "after seven months of investigations and committee hearings about my "collusion with the russians," nobody has been able to show any proof. sad." about an hour later, this tweet also directed at rosenstein "i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director! witch hunt." the reaction from democrats fast and fierce. senator dianne feinstein saying the message of the president is sending through his tweets is that he believes the rule of law doesn't apply to him, and that anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired. that's undemocratic on its face and a blatant violation of the president's oath of office." joining me to share reporting and insights, phil

mattingly,'die flil im"the washington post," carlin dermersian "the washington post" andcnn's jeff zeleny. we have a presidential tweet this morning at 6:30, tweeting when it "the make america great again agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the witch hunt. many new jobs, high business enthusiasm, massive regulation cuts, 36 new legislatives bills signed, great new supreme court justice and infrastructure, health care and tax cuts in the works." we've seen something of the president, white house and republican strategy in terms of dealing with russia in that cloud that's hanging over this presidency. how do trump's tweets fit into that larger strategy? >> he's clearly trying to discredit this investigation by calling it a witch hunt, but the reality is it's very real. can he call it fake news, a phony investigation but his white house realizes it's real,

republicans certainly realize it's real. so the message he sent out this morning is a slightly optimistic view of where things are. if you talk to republicans on capitol hill or anyplace, things are not going very well. we're five months in and republicans control the government for the first time in ten years and things are essentially stalled. i was talking with a tax reform lobbyist, a tax lobbyist, and he said that, you know, the level of optimism has gone down week by week by week, now virtually no one believes this will happen this year and if it doesn't happen this year, it's very hard to get anything done in an election year. we'll see what happens. but the real sit russia has consumed everything and the president is still talking about it. >> abbie, one way of reading his tweets of the investigation he is admitting he is under investigation, something that he has said over and over again that he wasn't under

investigation. is that what he's actually doing in these tweets, admitting that? >> it depends who you ask. the white house is saying he's not admitting it. he's reading "the washington post" and watching cnn and seeing everybody talking about so he's commenting on the story. that's not what you do when you are first of all the president of the united states. you don't want to be in a position confirming things you are also arguing are maybe untrue or unverifiable. so the tweet was clearly misguided, caught his aides and lawyers by surprise. they had to then turn around and concoct an explanation for them, and this is what they came up with. you know, every single day that the president wakes up and sends out a tweet about a witch hunt and about russia is a day we're not talking about infrastructure week and apprenticeship week. >> that was this past, apprenticeship week. >> apprenticeship week was going swimmingly but you wouldn't know it if you looked at the

president's twitter feed. this morning he was close. >> double barreled message there. >> almost had a tweet that was about his agenda but he slipped in that witch hunt there. you have some aides shaking their heads. i don't think many of them think there's going to be much they can do to change it. >> the interesting thing about this morning, 140 of the 280 characters were on point. >> you counted. >> they were what people wanted to see. this is the biggest thing that i hear repeatedly and jeff hit on this as well. republicans who want to focus on the agenda, republicans infuriated we're all talking about russia, the administration infuriated everybody's talking about russia. the president is the one who continues to talk about russia. the president starts every single day talking about this issue, bringing it back to the forefront, seemingly confirming things nobody else confirmed up to the point. he's the one that's bringing it back to this. it's not a witch hunt. it's responding to the president's tweets, the president's own official statements. if he could do blond tweets about his policy agenda, people

would be beyond thrilled. >> and he wouldn't be trump. think about the person that was campaigning. did he talk much about the details of his plans? never as quickly as the other candidates did and every time a negative threat came, whether it was a person or a thing he branded it. it's the witch hunt. russia equals witch hunt. >> and part of that branding has to do with rosenstein, who is on the hill this past tuesday and he was talking about mueller, who some people at least there's talk in washington this idea that his job might be at stake. here is what rod rosenstein had to say. >> director mueller is going to have a full degree of independence that he needs to conduct that investigation appropriately. >> if president trump ordered you to fire the special counsel, what would you do? >> senator, i'm not going to follow any orders unless i believe those are lawful and appropriate orders. >> really in a place where most

republicans, even ben carson saying let bob mueller do his on. >> this is what republicans have been saying in general about the special counsel's probe. they believe as far as russian collusion allegations go the probe will exonerate the president. let it go, let it happen. the irony is the fact the president couldn't is what put this in the camp of obstruction of justice and that's frankly why we are discussing potential recusals for rosenstein. he had nothing to do with the russian collusion as far as what we've seen but his memo has been trump's excuse, that's why i fired comey, that's not why i was going to fire him, actually it would have been, this week he's gone back and forth. it makes him a witness, whether or not he knew anything. his testimony for what's going behind the scenes matters. the question collins asked i don't see cause for firing mueller right now established rosenen stein as the fire wall between trump and the guy causing him the most problems. >> we saw sessions this past

week, another witness, in some ways frustrating for some democrats the white house in some ways looked facially on his testimony. >> and the suggestion that i participated in any collusion, that i was aware of collusion with its russian government to hurt this country which i served with honor for 35 years to undermine the integrity of our democratic process is an appalling and detestable lie. >> really dramatic testimony there. jeff, didn't shed a lot of light in terms of what his conversations were with the president about the firing of james comey and whether it had anything to do with russia. >> exactly. that's why the white house was pleased because it did not shine any light on it at all. he was defiant and dig nant and upset but he did not off any new information about the matter at hand here, the president's own role in this.

the reality here of all these messages the president has been sending the witch hunt, et cetera, it's more strategy than a spontaneous i'm told and he wants to win the political fight on this. as he's always done. the difference here is every time he does anything like this, it probably hurts the legal fight. he's viewing this as the short term gain he wants to win the political fight here so he's sending out his talking points every day it's a witch hunt and his supporters believe him. the reality here is it's a challenge going forward as this goes to a legal fight which is a new area for him. >> the one thing that's important to remember, even if it's a legal fight, ultimately this does not end up in the court of law making the final judgment. the court of law is congress. %-ps right in terms of -- >> all connected. >> exactly. no matter mueller's recommendation. >> this fiasco is imperilling republicans. who is controlling the house of representatives and the senate in 2018 and 2020. that's ultimately what it

becomes. i don't think very many people expect a republican congress to impeach their own president, but if there is a democratic congress, you bet we're having a different conversation. so trump needs to be very careful that he's not putting republicans who are going up for re-election in a tough spot politically by making this russia investigation essentially a criminal cloud hanging over this white house, anybody associated with them gets tainted with it. >> phil, they're certainly feeling that on the hill, republicans. >> no question about it. if you look on the house side of things they're cognizant keenly aware of the possibility of running for re-election with a president with a 36% approval rating and most of them, at least 217 voted for a health care bill that has approval rating in the very, very low double digits. that's why you see frustration. they wish he would go away, not because they're against him. lot support him, certainly on the agenda items on taxes, health care, a lot are very much aligned with him. his judicial picks have been out

of this world when you talk to republican senators but those who recognize that they are in swinging districts or districts that could get caught up in a wave are staring at twitter right now and are staring at what they see on a daily basis and just saying, please stop. >> please stop. put your phone down. >> give us a chance in november with the money, with the opportunities w our agenda. give us a chance. please, don't san in our way. there's concern that's what's happening. >> even from camp david, where he is this weekend, wanted to tweet from the woods. up next, shaken by a gunman's attack, lawmakers call for a return to civility. can there be a new tone in congress? ty first... i think i might burst... totally immersed weekenders. whatever kind of weekender you are, there's a hilton for you. book your weekend break direct with hilton.com and join the summer weekenders. so, if anyone has a reason that these two should not be wed, speak now. (coughs) so sorry. oh no... it's just that your friend daryl here is supposed to be live streaming the wedding and he's not getting any service. i missed, like, the whole thing.

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hodgki hodgkinson from belleville, illinois. he was carrying a list of names although scalise's name wasn't on it. the politically charged social media presence filled with anti-republican rants has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle saying it's time to tone down the harsh rhetoric. >> what we want everybody to know we've always had a robust discussion of the issues in this country throughout our history, but we don't dislike each other. we work together all the time. >> there's a lot of contention, obviously the politics has become polarized but doesn't have to stand in the way of personal relationships or working together and we try to do that. >> coren on the one hand they seem to be talking about substance, right, working together, but stylistically. this idea that things will be different going forward, are we too pessimistic to think that it's unlikely? what's your sense?

what are you hearing on capitol hill? >> everybody is speaking on capitol hill as if they want to change things going forward. just as an aside i would say the president struck a tone, maybe this is a shift going forward and we know that was not the case because he started tweeting angrily again, there's fewer references to democrats than the last time, but members of congress have to make a choice because they ease into very, very sharp banter that's not going to go away entirely. they seize into the line, close to the line of personal attacks as they start to criticize policy and because they're emotional things, when you talk about health care, preexisting conditions, people that are dying, people who have family members that experienced various things, that can be very, very visceral and very, very hard to hold yourself back from the line. but i think this is going to be a point at which we try to see where the i was saying is it the person or the politician who wins out in the struggles.

the person says i remember this episode, could have been an attack on me, too. because had it not been for scalise's bodyguards you're thinking every rank and file member of congress that joins other rank and file in a public setting has to wonder is somebody going to have a gun. it feels real and anybody friends with anybody on that field for them it is a real come to jesus moment in a way, things really need to change because i care about these people. the question underlying that is how many of those relationships exist. we've been talking about washington being broken for a while and part of that is the fact everybody goes home on the weekends. they don't have their kids hang out together that much, don't have all the other bonds they talk about existing. >> we saw some of that this week, nancy pelosi and paul ryan, heer this talking about grandkids. >> i think we need to find more opportunities for to us work together. we know each other well we need

to find more republicopportunit republicans and democrats to break bread, have meals and travel and do things with one another. we know people on our committees, our leadership the people we work with but not enough relationship building exercises between republicans and democrats. >> i thought you were going to brag about how much my grandchildren like you. >> her grandkids actually like me, go figure. >> relationship building, lunches, maybe trust folds at some point. what do you think we're going to see? >> look, it's tough to overstate how rattled everybody was this week, members, staff, reporters. it's a community. everybody knows one another, everybody has a decent amount of respect for one another but one of the biggest departures, fractures is people don't know one another well. people don't go on the congressional trips anymore. people live at home because they're afraid to be told they went washington. people are fund-raising every single day. the dynamics of how politics work don't engender the ability

to form relationships with individuals. the big question that i found a lot of members that i was speaking to grappling with right now is what wins out, rhetoric or relationships? the rhetoric's been rewarded, period, over the course of the last decade. the people with the strongest rhetoric have won elections over and over and over. >> donald trump the biggest example of that. >> so what people are trying to grapple with right now, there's no question, after what happened on wednesday everybody is going to talk happy talk, talk about relationships, try to figure out a way to change things. at what point do they have to make that decision of am i going to ratchet everything bang at the risk of potentially losing in november or go back to what i'm used to. i can tell you most people would prefer the latter than the former at the current moment but when consultants and polls and money comes in, that's when the question begins. >> mark sanford, a congressman out of south carolina, really talked about donald trump and sort of the trump effect and what kind of responsibility the president might bear.

>> we have gotten to a point in terms of breakdown of civility in our country that it's a problem, and that everybody is to blame and the blame can go on the republican side, on the democratic side, but web the president says to somebody in the audience "i wish i could hit you in the face, if not why don't you do it and i'll pay your legal fees" call it what it is, that's a problem. >> abby, what do you make of that? >> there's a lot of truth to that. 24 hours after this awful tragedy happened the president went on twitter and accused the people of investigating him of essentially being bad people. i think that kind of sets the tone. you set the tone from the top. i think he's internalized that his voters reward him for going as far as close to the line as possible for speaking his mind, for not being politically correct, but at what point does political correctness actually contribute to a deterioration of

civility in the country, not just in washington, i'm talking just in general. so i don't think the president recognizes that there's any connection between his own rhetoric and this environment. i think he talks about the sacrifice steve scalise made for his colleagues and for the country, but you have to take that and do something with it. you have to move it forward, and i don't think we've seen him do that. i don't think he recognizes that there's any connection. >> he is it have a unifying message shortly after the shooting happened. he also had this message that was broadcast at the baseball game. >> by playing tonight, you are showing the world that we will not be intimidated by threats, acts of violence, or assaults on our democracy. the game will go on. in washington, we have our disagreements, but we all agree that we are here to serve this nation we love, and the people

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president trump is spending this father's day away from the white house visiting camp david for the very first time. first lady melania trump and 11-year-old son baron are with him. while trump is taking in the woodsy digs, a long to do list awaits him back in washington. first on that list, health care. . >> the house of representatives has passed on to the senate and the senate's getting ready to do

something hopefully it will get done, where we will come up with a solution and a really good one to health care. >> lawmakers are up against the clock. congress only has ten legislative days left before the july 4th recess. what's adding to that time crunch? cnn has learned that senate democrats may try to shut down all senate business to pressure republicans to reveal details of the senate version of the bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is staying hush hush about actually what's in the senate version of the bill, and even some members of his own party have been left in the dark. that's making some gopers worry more about the time crunch. republican leaders have been sending pieces of the bill to the congressional budget office to be reviewed but it would be a tough turnaround to get the final legislation scored in that short time frame. phil, you've been hanging out on the hill talking to republican

lawmakers on this. where do things stand now this bill? >> they're not there yet and there's no question about that. they're close and i don't know they'll have a lot of options going forward. you mentioned the time line. ten legislative days, it's clear, senate leader innocence the republican party want to vote before july 4th. there's a lot of reasons. they have a huge list of agen da items they want to get to and recognition while this process doesn't look good publicly, behind the scenes they've been having meeting after meeting after meeting with all 52 members of their conference. they know what the issues are, medicaid expansion, obamacare regulation, structure of the tax credit, abortion. they have not changed. the issues have not changed. the players have not changed. they recognize that at some point you're going to have to actually move forward and do something and the big question now is two-fold. one, can you get a score done, can you get something back and two, is there any way to thread this needle and get 50 votes. if you look at the issues outstanding it is extraordinarily difficult to get that coalition together you into ed to get.

people have to compromise in a major way and up to this point behaven't seen it. >> in one those of senator murkowski here's what she had to say what's happening with the senate bill so far. >> yes, i've got a problem with it. if i'm not going to see a bill before we have a vote on it, that's just not a good way to handle something that is as significant and important as health care. >> and kouran, murkowski in alaska, she cares about planned parenthood and the medicaid expansion as well. what do you hear coming from her and is that something you're hearing from other senators who are in those medicaid states? >> the medicaid expansion states you saw a number of republican governors join this bipartisan letter this week saying you can't pass the bill the way it is. eight a terrible mod, it wouldn't work in our state. pay attention to medicaid provisions as well.

you also have murkowski is a senator from a rural state who have a special interest in this because they rely on federally funded programs so much more than others do but i think there's just, i mean, the reason she just gave there, there is an argument to be made about hypocrisy because the republicans complained with democrats when obamacare passed which took longer on the calendar than they've given themselves for the republican version of repeal and replace, was that it was the line you have to pass it to see what's in it, that was the thing that played out over and over again they're clandestine about anything so much so they can't explain when reporters ask them. if it fails maybe there was a thought there would be a messaging argument against senate democrats for making it difficult to work with them but they lose that if democrats say you didn't let us know what was in it, your own people didn't know and that was your complaint

with us. >> democrats are very much going on the offense here, on monday they'll launch an ad campaign in four states, including alaska and here is a look at some of that ad. >> senator collins, when this happens, she isn't think being the health care bill in congress. she isn't thinking that it will force her to choose between filling his prescriptions or paying their mortgage. and she shouldn't have to, but you should, senator collins. >> and jeff, what is the white house role in this? the president obviously the big rose garden ceremony when it came out of the house version of the bill, a bill that he has since called mean. >> he did, and i think if the shooting hadn't happened this week that would have been a much more significant moment. he essentially threw the house member's bill under the bus. he said it was a mean bill. he watches public opinion.

he knows the health care bill is deeply unpopular. the question, what does he want to do about it? he said the senate bill should be more generous. what does that mean necessarily? he didn't explain, and the challenge here for the white house is that the president has not been that involved in the senate bill and that is just fine with the senate. they do not really want him involved or the white house involved but the challenge here for him is to reconcile all of this. i mean the mean factor of this is something that is going to probably going to be a huge issue for him, because once this bill passes the senate, if it passes the senate, a big if yet, it has to go back to the house and that will take white house leadership, that's the moment the president and the white house will step in and bridge that gap. >> what is amazing to me about this whole process is that you actually have congress really not wanting to talk about boring policy details, and as a result, ceding the sort of public opinion to other stories like

russia, for example, and that's really remarkable, and then you have moments like this, where the president just decides to talk about things that he is not very plugged in on this. everybody that i talk to says that he's not, his hands are not in the details on this bill at all, and for him to just sort of in some ways reprimand republicans for passing a bill that he, you know, twisted their arm and forced them to get to is remarkable. plugged in republican told me that moment put a lot of shock in the system. democrats in the senate are saying will the president throw us under the bus if we take a tough vote for him, will he look at public opinion, look at tv and the polls and say hey this is actually unpopular, why did we pass this bill? a lot of republicans don't want to do that. >> a lot of uncertainty about that bill. coming up, it's the house race with the biggest price tag ever. the final arguments hit the air waves in georgia's sixth

district. we'll look at why the race could say a lot about the political climate for the country.

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. it's a long time conservative stronghold but democrats have their eyes on georgia's sixth congressional district in what has become the most expensive house race in history. just this past week, a new ad from democrat onossoff taking on critics on his national security k credentials. >> i want to see isis destroyed, as an investigative filmmaker i helped expose atrocities committed by isis against women and girls. they're evil. and we have to stop them. that's why i'll work to make sure our military and intelligence community have every tool they need to fight terrorism. >> the ad was partly in response to this from the national republican congressional committee.

>> isis is infiltrating america and using syrians to do it. the fbi warned we can't safely screen every syrian, yet john ossoff's liberal party bosses brought 10,000 syrian refugees to america. jon ossoff is just too risky. >> republicans want to hold onto the district and testimonies want to flip it. tuesday's runoff election will give both parties a small glimpse at a possible playbook for how to run in the trump era. abby, you covered democrats in 2016 and in some way this is district and this race has some of the features of the 2016 race in terms of hillary clinton. what do you think democrats are looking for and why are they spending so heavily in this race? >> i think the key here in this district is going to be the sort of education divide that's always present in politics, especially in light of the november election. this district is a little bit

more affluent, moving toward the more college educated side. it is a republican district but those republicans are, they have college degrees, they are sort of working, sorry, white collar workers as opposed to working class high school educated foenfolks so that changes the dynamics. you're not going to see the same thing you saw with donald trump. some of those republicans are much more skeptical of him. lot want to give him the benefit of the doubt but they're skeptical and willing to turn to flip in a congressional seat. >> and he won this district one percentage point, and you were talking about the demographics and the socioeconomics of this district and we've got a graphic up. the resident with bachelors degrees are more in this district, 58%, you compare that to kansas, the fourth district there, about 28%, and montana at

large district is about to, those two races democrats obviously came up short in those. and this idea one of the things that ossoff want to do is basically democrats come together and peel off some of those republican romney voters. koucamera, what do you think republicans are looking for in this race, which is tight as a tick i'm told anywhere from one percentage point will probably decide the final race. >> right, i think it's so hold back what could be a swelling tide if ossoff wins. if he wins it's a signal to the democrat this is is doable. you can flip the districts that might be traditionally republican but not rump republican. doesn't give them a playbook that wins the house, unclear. even in montana better showing than in the past but not quite enough to have it be a win. so if they can win this, it's definitely going to be wind at their backs to keep going and

going to be great for the democrats. also the other question is if they lose, they have to take a look at themselves because it's so odd you have these two candidate being everything riding on these two candidates, this particular district. neither of them is particularly rehearsed in politics. but just in general you're having isis commercials in the last few days, what are we talking about. >> sonny perdue was campaigning with karen handel, agriculture secretary and former governor of georgia. here is what he had to say to republicans. >> i know some of you out there, some of you, some republicans may even be turned off by our president, and i don't think you are. i'm not, because let me tell you, let me tell you, i know his heart. and let me just share, i was in miami yesterday with him. the president keeps his

promises. >> jeff, that message seems to be something like come on home to the republican party even if you don't want to? >> extraordinary. we're five months into the presidency, and for the president to not be a valuable asset is pretty interesting, and that is a sign of things to come going forward. lot of republicans will not want to be sort of at his side campaigning, but i'm struck with that, that's the first time i saw that, maybe you don't like him -- but i think the president here desperately would love to be down there involved in the fray of this. he's not wanted, quite frankly, and that is, you know, something that probably stings. >> we'll see, phil, what lessons republicans draw from this on tuesday. >> i think one of the most interesting takeaways is if jon ossoff wins on capitol hill, republicans are going to freak out. doing anything on special election, it is a dangerous thing but -- >> but they will do it. our reporters share from their

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lets aclose by asking our reporters to share a little tidbit from their notebooks and help keep you out ahead of the big political news coming up. phil, i'll start with you. >> senators have been given a lot of space to figure out their differences on health care, they're enormous. we talked about that. that ends this week. i'm told that at some point during this week, leadership will come down and say it's time to make a deal, the negotiations are over. it is now time to compromise. figure something out, because we have to move forward.

we've all known this moment is coming. now we know when it's coming. expect it by the middle of this week and we'll see what happens from there. >> negotiations over coming up. >> time to make a deal. >> abby? >> my colleague lisa and i have a story in today's papber among republicans the slow pace white house members are filling political posts. there were is no one to implement the trump agenda and all that talk of deconstructive the administrative state has gone out the window. this white house does want to fill many of these positions but there is some nervousness among the candidates about coming into a white house under siege by a number of investigations, by a president who doesn't listen to some of his aides, and so all of that is contributing to a little bit of a supply and demand problem for this white house in terms of staffing the government. >> we'll see how that goes. karoun? >> this week is a big test in the greater probe around trump coming up in congress. the house intelligence committee

asked him to produce the tapes by the end of the week and it's a test of the efficacy of the russian investigationer have success the credibility of the president. if he produces them what's in them could corroborate his or comey's story. if he doesn't, can congress yell and scream and beat their chests or subpoena something they're not sure exists and the question where does this go from there. this is a push/pull and we'll see how this happens on the issue of the tapes and the question if they're not there, not produced, how many times can the president tweet about something in air quotes, wire tapping, tapes, and people defend him as this is a slip of the twitter finger and not poor judgment in terms of trying to divert attention away. >> he said whatever the outcome of the tapes we'll be disappointed. we'll see what happens. what does that mean? jeff? >> this week the president is going west of the mississippi for for the first time since he's within in office which is unusual, five months in, but

going to iowa on wednesday to cedar rapids. his advisers are trying to get him to leave this bubble of washington, trying to get him out of here, but for some reason he's not as inclined to do so. we're not sure why that is. is he going to iowa on wednesday. last week i was with him in wisconsin and it's amazing when you look at the local news coverage is on the issues he's talking about. we'll see if this marks the beginning of a turning point of more time outside of the white house. i don't think it will. he is inclined to stay here for some reason but on a wednesday in iowa, he'll be there for the first time, one of the states he turned from blue to red. >> i'll close with democrats, senate camella harris of california did herself and her party some good creating viral moments with her tough and pointed questioning of administration officials. she upped her following on social media, got shout outs on late night tv, "the view" and several black media outlets, and

women's outlets as well. that kind of outside the beltway buzz means harris is breaking through and could be a big help to democrats in 2018 as they look for fresh star power and as they look for someone who can bridge the party divides. she has helped fund raise already for claire mccaskill, jon tester and elizabeth warren and i'm told she plans to do more of that coming in the future and also focus on one of her signature issues, criminal justice reform, in the coming weeks. that's it for "inside politics." thanks again for sharing your sunday morning and a happy father's day to you and john king will be back in the anchor chair tomorrow at noon. up next, "state of the union" request jake tamer.

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